Questions for the RCP

The world is in turmoil, now more than ever political clarity is crucial. Here are a few basic but fundamental questions for the RCP:

1. Are workers in Britain moving mostly to the left or to the right?

2. Why is the Palestinian movement at an impasse?

3. How did the People’s Republic of China become a capitalist state without a counterrevolution?

4. Why was the strike wave defeated?

5. What is behind the RCI’s turn towards communism?

Here is how we answer:

Spart answers

1. Because of the betrayal of Corbyn and the trade union tops, workers are moving towards right-wing populism rather than the left. Communism is not in vogue in the working class. To change this, we need to offer actual paths of struggle which require a rupture with Labourism and liberalism.

   Read more: “How London liberals fuel the far right”

2. The Palestinian movement in Britain can progress only if it stands in opposition to the Labour government, but its leaders either support Starmer or refuse to break with those who do.

   Read more: “Why Can’t Anyone Stop Netanyahu?”

3. China didn’t become a capitalist state, it is still a deformed workers state. The dictatorship of a class cannot change gradually, i.e. be reformed. It must be broken up in a revolution or a counterrevolution.

   Read more: “The Class Nature of China”

4. The strike wave was defeated because union tops Mick Lynch, Dave Ward, Sharon Graham and Co refused to organise a showdown with the government…and socialists refused to build an opposition to them.

   Read more: “How to rebuild union power”

5. The RCI’s turn towards communism is an ultraleft response to the collapse of left reformism. (Yes, it’s ironic that this is coming from the Sparts.)

   Read more: “The Grant leap forward”